From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #604 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, November 23 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 604 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Song for Sharon ["Mark" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:56:10 -0800 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Song for Sharon For some reason, somewhere in back of my cobweb infested head I have always made some connection to the 23rd Psalm. 'He maketh me to lie down in green pastures'. I always thought that if there is that connection, it is purely superficial. Just borrowing from the Bible like countless other writers have done. But now that somebody has mentioned the biblical references in 'apple of temptation and a diamond snake around my arm', I am beginning to wonder. I have fallen and been cast out but I'll get back to Eden (the garden) some day? The song starts out in NYC and ends with green pastures. The two women's lives are very different but Joni sees some similarity. Sharon still makes music and sings for an audience of friends and family. Joni finds time for solitude and reflection away from the limelight from time to time, . Mark in a very wet Seattle (typical November weather) - -----Original Message----- From: Catherine McKay Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:37 PM To: Bob Muller ; Betsy Blue ; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Song for Sharon I hadn't thought of it either, but it wouldn't surprise me that there might be another meaning. Joni does that a lot. For some reason, though, when I hear about "walking green pastures," it reminds me of someone dying. It also reminds me of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ("Happy trails to you".) Maybe I'm thinking of the hymn, "The sweet by-and-by." It seems like the kind of song Joni might have heard on the radio as a child (maybe played just before the sign-off prayer?) I have no idea where I get that from, but it just comes into my head when I hear that particular verse of "Song for Sharon." >________________________________ > From: Bob Muller >To: Betsy Blue ; "joni@smoe.org" >Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 6:28:28 PM >Subject: Re: Song for Sharon > >Song >for Sharon? > > >I never thought of that but it certainly could be the case. >The song is of course purely autobiographical. By the same token she could >simply be referring to Sharon's green farmland as opposed to Joni's more >metropolitan and hurried lifestyle at the time. > >Bob > >Conference Call by The Bickering Coworkers> This sounds like a scream, I >have >to hear it! ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #604 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------